it DID take a while to take all the pictures...when I MADE THE ORIGINAL. it's actually a small piece of a much longer stop motion animation that i made. (obviously this is a really old comment, i haven't been on the site in a realllllllly long time)

It IS a joke by a pair of activist artists called the Yes Men. They stage elaborate pranks like this, often at corporate summits --> http://www.theyesmen.org/
There should be a link to the SurvivaBall thing at the top.